Tag: the booklover

David Canfield has compiled a list of the 50 most anticipated books of 2018 at the entertainment Website ew.com. You can check out the list here. I like Canfield’s list, he has a good mixture of women’s fiction, dystopian distress, memoirs, thrillers, etc. You can find something to add to your usual reading fare and something to expand your imagination. Go read!

Today, I found really great app and couldn’t wait to share it with other booklovers! You must try NPR’s Book Concierge if you haven’t already tried it. Use the filters to discover your next great read.

If you are like me, the thing you are looking forward tomost during the upcoming holidays is some time to sneak away from the festivities and read a good book. To that end Southern Living posted a list of twenty-eight new books to read during the holidays. You can find the list here. One title that particularly stands out to me is John Banville’s novel Mrs. Osmond, winner of The Man Booker Prize. Christmas gift, anyone?

The Guardian published an interview with novelist Hanya Yanagihara last week. She speaks to life in her one-bedroom apartment in New York City and on life with 12,000 books. The interview is short and as much fun for an aficionado of interior design as a booklover. Hanya Yanagihara is the author of “People in the Trees.”

It wouldn’t be summer vacation without a few great books to throw in the travel bag or take outside with a glass of iced tea for some quality time! Southern Living has put together a great list of summer books.

Commonweatlth by Ann Patchett and Before the Fall by Noah Hawley are two standouts on the list. Both are excellent reads and I can’t wait to check out some of the others! After all, summer reading is any booklover’s favorite activity!

As at any event there are the requisite vendors and this year the Atlanta Steeplechase had someone special there. Tennent Neville, a poet from Black Mountain, North Carolina was in attendance with beautifully bound copies of his book entitled Horse Verse. Mr. Neville’s poetry is stream of consciousness verse, a literary style in which a character’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. According to Google, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust are among its notable early exponents. Mr. Neville gave me permission to post one of his poems here for my readers:

My most recent book purchase has brought me a great deal of joy during this National Poetry Month and month of steeplechases. If you would like to enjoy Mr. Neville’s beautiful book and stream of consciousness verse you should write to him at P.O. Box 354, Black Mountain, NC 28711. His slim volume of poems was $20, and is well worth that for such a beautifully bound book of Horse Verse. Quite an unusual and wonderful find!

Reddit user BackForward24 has created a map where each country is represented by a book that is seen as either the most well-known or important work to come from that country. Bookstr has written a terrific post about the map and the literature the map represents. Check it out here. You will soon have 196 additional books on your “to-read” list.